Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most, Shriver Timothy

Автор: Shriver, Lionel
Название: We Need to Talk About Kevin
ISBN: 006112429X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061124297
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Описание: Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, Lionel Shriver's resonant story of a mother's unsettling quest to understandher teenage son's deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, andthe explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting power of highhopes shattered by dark realities. Like Shriver's charged and incisive laternovels, including So Much for That and The Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk About Kevin isa piercing, unforgettable, and penetrating exploration of violence, familyties, and responsibility, a book that the Boston Globe describes as"sometimes searing . . . and] impossible to put down."--Newark Star Ledger

Автор: Shriver Lionel
Название: So Much for That
ISBN: 0007578067 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007578061
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin comes the most entertaining novel about illness and death one`s ever likely to read and asks the uncomfortable fiscal question: how much is one life worth?

Автор: Lionel Shriver
Название: The New Republic
ISBN: 0007459912 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007459919
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: A scalpel sharp political satire from the Orange Prize winning writer of We Need to Talk about Kevin. `A superbly witty political satire` THE TIMES

Автор: Shriver Lionel
Название: The Mandibles LP: A Family, 2029-2047
ISBN: 006246714X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062467140
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 2925.00 р.
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With dry wit and psychological acuity, this near-future novel explores the aftershocks of an economically devastating U.S. sovereign debt default on four generations of a once-prosperous American family. Down-to-earth and perfectly realistic in scale, this is not an over-the-top Blade Runner tale. It is not science fiction.

In 2029, the United States is engaged in a bloodless world war that will wipe out the savings of millions of American families. Overnight, on the international currency exchange, the "almighty dollar" plummets in value, to be replaced by a new global currency, the "bancor." In retaliation, the president declares that America will default on its loans. "Deadbeat Nation" being unable to borrow, the government prints money to cover its bills. What little remains to savers is rapidly eaten away by runaway inflation.

The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their ninety-seven-year-old patriarch dies. Once the inheritance turns to ash, each family member must contend with disappointment, but also--as the U.S. economy spirals into dysfunction--the challenge of sheer survival.

Recently affluent, Avery is petulant that she can't buy olive oil, while her sister, Florence, absorbs strays into her cramped household. An expat author, their aunt, Nollie, returns from abroad at seventy-three to a country that's unrecognizable. Her brother, Carter, fumes at caring for their demented stepmother, now that an assisted living facility isn't affordable. Only Florence's oddball teenage son, Willing, an economics autodidact, will save this formerly august American family from the streets.

The Mandibles is about money. Thus it is necessarily about bitterness, rivalry, and selfishness--but also about surreal generosity, sacrifice, and transformative adaptation to changing circumstances.

Автор: Shriver Lionel
Название: Big Brother
ISBN: 0007271107 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007271108
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Описание: From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin. `[Shriver`s] best novel yet` INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY